Sumatran orangutan

Sumatran orangutan
	Male at Leipzig Zoological Garden, Leipzig
	Female with infant at the Tierpark Hellabrunn, Munich
Conservation status
	; Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Hominidae
Genus:	Pongo
Species:	P. abelii
Binomial name
	Pongo abelii; Lesson, 1827
	Distribution in Indonesia

The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is one of the three species of orangutans. Found only in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, it is rarer than the Bornean orangutan but more common than the recently identified Tapanuli orangutan, also found in Sumatra.

References[change | change source]

↑ Singleton, Ian; Wich, Serge A.; Nowak, Matthew G.; Usher, Graham; Utami-Atmoko, Sri Suchi (2017). "Pongo abelii (errata version published in 2018)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T121097935A123797627.title has extraneous text
↑ Lesson, René-Primevère (1827). Manuel de mammalogie ou Histoire naturelle des mammifères (in French). Paris: Roret, Libraire. p. 32.

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[iucn-1] Singleton, Ian; Wich, Serge A.; Nowak, Matthew G.; Usher, Graham; Utami-Atmoko, Sri Suchi (2017). "Pongo abelii (errata version published in 2018)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T121097935A123797627.title has extraneous text

[Lesson1827-2] Lesson, René-Primevère (1827). Manuel de mammalogie ou Histoire naturelle des mammifères (in French). Paris: Roret, Libraire. p. 32.

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